The choir is directed by the Abbey Organist and Master of the Choristers, Robert Fielding, and accompanied on the organ by the Assistant Organist, Adrian Taylor.

Along with the precentor, the musical side of its work is led by the " Organist and Director of Music ", working with any assistant organist and organ scholar, as well as the " Honorary Keeper of the Music and Music Librarian " and, as at 2007, a " Music Development Officer ".

The Birmingham City Organist performed a piece of music to a group of school children in 2005 after the majority of the organ had been cleaned.

A specification of the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register The current Organist and Master of the Choristers is Christopher Barton, who has been in post since 1979.

In 1904, Labor received the title Kaiserlich und Königlich Hoforganist ( Royal and Imperial Court Organist ) and is today best known for his organ works.

In 1889 he attained a teaching position at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, first as organ scholar and then as fellow in 1894, becoming the first Director of Music and Organist.

In August 1991, another large all-pipe Rodgers organ installed at Glenkirk Presbyterian Church, Glendora, California was the cover feature of The American Organist, official journal of the American Guild of Organists.

Scott Foppiano, American Theatre Organ Society's Organist of the year for 2007, released a theatre pipe organ transcription of the aria on his album, Beyond the Blue Horizon.

Magnum Opus: The Building of the Schoenstein Organ at the Conference Center by John Longhurst, retired Senior Tabernacle Organist, examines the concept, approval, design, and construction of the Conference center organ seen during general conferences of the Church.

Birmingham City Council appoint the Birmingham City Organist to provide a free series of weekly public organ recitals.

It is widely accepted that the Cornhill Lunchtime Organ Recitals series begun by Darke in 1916 is the longest-running lunchtime organ concert series in the world ; the series has flourished under his successors Richard Popplewell 1966-1979 and the present Organist, Jonathan Rennert, from 1979 to the present.

Organist Hugh Banton offered to play bass guitar on the two tracks that had not yet been finished.

In 2007 the posts of Organist and Director of Music were separated, the Sub-Organist post being re-titled Organist & Assistant Director of Music in September 2008.

In 2007 the posts of Organist and Director of Music were separated, the Assistant Sub-Organist post being re-titled Sub-Organist in April 2008.

Among these were the Volunteer Organist, Two Little Girls in Blue, and others which had very large sales at the time.

" Organist Jimmy Smith was signed in 1956, and performed on the label's first 12 " LP album of new recordings.

Skinner was a prolific writer with numerous letters to the editors of The Diapason and The American Organist appearing in those publications from the 1940s onward wherein he defended his tonal ideals and made an attempt to regain lost territory on the American musical landscape.

His first job as a school leaver was production assistant on Home Organist, working for Richard Desmond, now proprietor of Express Newspapers.

Forerunners include Titian's various depictions of Venus, such as Venus and Cupid with a Partridge, Venus and Cupid with an Organist and notably the Venus of Urbino ; Palma il Vecchio's Reclining Nude ; and Giorgione's Sleeping Venus, all of which show the deity reclining on luxurious textiles, although in landscape settings in the latter two works.

Artists who have recorded on the label include Tortoise, The Sea and Cake, High Places, Trans Am, Mouse on Mars, ADULT., Nobukazu Takemura, Bobby Conn, Tom Verlaine, Freakwater, The Zincs, The National Trust, Eleventh Dream Day, Califone, Chicago Underground Duo, Howe Gelb / Giant Sand, Oval, Town & Country, Archer Prewitt, Sam Prekop, The Lonesome Organist, OOIOO, Pit er Pat, The Fiery Furnaces, Angela Desveaux, Liturgy, Boredoms, and Pontiak, amongst others.

After 1985, he concentrated solely on St Paul's which eventually led to his appointment as Organist and Director of Music in 1990, in succession to Christopher Dearnley.

Eroica soloists include the aforementioned concert pianists ; violist Scott Slapin, the only artist to record the entire Bach Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin on the viola ; conductor and violinist Guillermo Figueroa, the only artist to record all three Bartók Sonatas for violin on a single CD ; lutenist F. Edgar Gilbert playing Lute music from the Baroque and Renaissance periods ; Carol Wood playing Early Music for harp and voice ; Andrea Steckermeier-Thiele playing contemporary harp works ; Dominique Piana performing traditional and contemporary harp works, Cellists Yehuda Hanani and Michael Rudiakov, each performing Johann Sebastian Bach's Suites for cello Solo ; Organist Richard Heschke ; Organist James Riker, opera tenor Camillo d ' Antonio, operatic sopranos Eileen Mager, Isolda Jones, Elin Carlson, and Alicia Solomon, and classical guitarists Jonathan Adams, Scott Morris, Glenn Strauss, Joseph Sullinger, Troy King, Susan McDonald and many others.

It was on Easter Sunday 1970 that he gave his final concert on the Tower Ballroom Wurlitzer, and event which was recorded and broadcasted by the BBC, and he was also interviewed by Robin Richmond, for the BBC's The Organist Entertains.

Together with the clergy and Receiver General and Chapter Clerk, various lay officers constitute the college, including the Organist and Master of the Choristers, the Registrar, the Auditor, the Legal Secretary, the Surveyor of the Fabric, the Head Master of the Choir School, the Keeper of the Muniments and the Clerk of the Works, as well as 12 lay vicars, 10 choristers and the High Steward and High Bailiff.

Born at Birmingham as the eldest of seven children of Samuel Bache, a well-known Unitarian minister, he studied with James Stimpson, Birmingham City Organist, and with violinist Alfred Mellon while being educated at his father's school.

The Organist Laureate is Colin Walsh, previously Organist and Master of the Choristers, and the Assistant Organist is Claire Innes-Hopkins.

From 2003 the post was divided: Colin Walsh became Organist Laureate and Aric Prentice was appointed Director of Music.

The organists of York Minster have had several official titles, the job description roughly equates to that of Organist and Master of the Choristers.

* Philip Joseph Lank 1954-1955 ( later Organist of St. Wulfram's Church, Grantham )

* Malcolm Ernest Cousins 1956-1959 ( later Organist of St. Peter and St. Paul's Church, Mansfield )

* Maurice Greene ( chorister ), composer and Organist of St Paul's Cathedral.

* John Stainer ( chorister ), Organist of St Paul's Cathedral and Professor of Music at Oxford University.

* James Lancelot ( chorister ), Organist of Durham Cathedral.

The present director of music ( known as the Organist ), is Stephen Darlington.

The exciting possibilities afforded by this scenario, as well as the spectacular worship setting of the College's neo-Gothic Chapel, have enabled the College to attract a very high calibre of applicants for its Choral and Parry-Wood Organ Scholarships, and former Organ Scholars include Robert Sharpe ( Director of Music, York Minster ), Christopher Herrick ( International Concert Organist and former Organist, Westminster Abbey ), and David Trendell ( Director of Music, King's College London ), as well as the current Directors of Music at Rugby, Charterhouse, Sherborne, and Latymer Upper Schools.

Edward Higginbottom, Organist and Tutor in Music at New College, has been made Oxford University ’ s first Choral Professor.

A separate Girls ' Choir was formed in 1996 by Diane Williams, wife of the then Organist and Master of the Choristers, Jeffrey Williams, to sing at the less formal ' first Sunday ' morning service.

Louis Vierne: Organist of Notre Dame Cathedral.

However, the overdriven sound of the Hammond gained a new image when it became part of 1960s and 1970s rock with artists like Alan Price, Gregg Allman, Steve Winwood, Rick Wright, Keith Emerson, Jon Lord, Matthew Fisher, Rick Wakeman, Tony Banks and Jack McDuff.

For instance, the carriage of the remains of St Cuthbert from Lindisfarne to Durham is the subject of " The Road from Lindisfarne ", the third movement of the Durham Concerto ( 2007 ) by Jon Lord.

* June 9 – Jon Lord, organist of Deep Purple, the " Lord of the Hammond organ "

** Jon Lord, British musician and composer ( b. 1941 )

They have been rejected or strongly criticised by many prominent black metal musicians – including Jon Nödtveidt, Tormentor, King ov Hell, Infernus, Lord Ahriman, Emperor Magus Caligula, Protector, and the members of Arkhon Infaustus and Watain.

According to A. Asbjorn Jon ' the choice of name Polidori's Lord Ruthven is presumably linked to Lady Caroline Lamb's earlier novel Glenarvon, where it was used for a rather ill disguised Byronesque character '

* Marco de Goeij ( born 1967 ), reconstructs the lost composition Concerto for Group and Orchestra of Jon Lord

RADA has a number of notable associate members including Jane Asher, Sir Michael Gambon, Robert Bourne, Kenneth Branagh, Jon Cryer, Richard Digby Day, Trevor Eve, Ralph Fiennes, Edward Fox, Iain Glen, Gerald Harper, Sir Ian Holm, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Sir Derek Jacobi, Patricia Kneale, Paul McGann, Dame Helen Mirren, Sir Trevor Nunn, Peter O ' Toole, Dame Diana Rigg, Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, Lord Snowdon, Shelley Thompson, Alan Rickman, Timothy Dalton and Sir Roger Moore.

In 1969 Malcolm Arnold conducted the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in the recording of Deep Purple's Concerto for Group and Orchestra composed by the group's organist, Jon Lord.

" by Black Crowes producer George Drakoulias – and featuring a guest appearance on keyboards from Jon Lord of Deep Purple, the album was split between songwriters Gardener and Bell, with the former's songs making up the first half of the album and the latter's the second.

Several one-off recordings followed, including a 2002 duet with opera singer Filippa Giordano of the " Barcarolle " from Jacques Offenbach's Les contes d ' Hoffman as well as the song " The Sun Will Shine Again ", written especially for Lyngstad by former Deep Purple member Jon Lord, and recorded in 2004.

His bandmate Jens Johansson modernized the keyboard sound of Deep Purple's Jon Lord, which was further incorporated into the genre.

On 1 April 2007, a 50th anniversary semi-spoof edition of the programme was broadcast on BBC One, with Moore depicted as a Time Lord and featuring, as special guests, amateur astronomers Jon Culshaw ( impersonating Moore presenting the very first The Sky at Night ) and Brian May.

He presented with the help of special guests Professor Brian Cox, Jon Culshaw and Lord Rees, the Astronomer Royal.

* Jon Lord 7 "-( 1998 Justa Record )

* The Artwoods ( featuring Jon Lord )

Jonathan Douglas " Jon " Lord ( 9 June 1941 – 16 July 2012 ) was an English composer, pianist, and Hammond organ player known for his pioneering work in fusing rock with classical or baroque forms, especially with Deep Purple, as well as Whitesnake, Paice, Ashton & Lord, The Artwoods, and The Flower Pot Men.

Edwards was impressed enough by Jon Lord to ask him to form a band after Curtis faded out.

Jon Lord performing at the Sunflower Jam, London, 2007

Tony Ashton ( right ) with Jon Lord at a Gig ( musical performance ) | gig at the Hotel Post, March 1990

In 2003 he also returned to his beloved R-n-B / blues heritage to record an album of standards in Sydney, with Australia's Jimmy Barnes, entitled Live in the Basement, by Jon Lord and the Hoochie Coochie Men, showing himself to be one of British rock music's most eclectic and talented instrumentalists.

RIP Jon Lord.

" Geezer Butler of the band Black Sabbath wrote, " One of the great musicians of my generation ", while jazz musician Jamie Cullum said, " RIP Jon Lord – a hero of the keys.